Fremantle Design Week is one of our favourite events on the calendar. As a returning Presenting Partner, it’s been Artedomus’ pleasure to work with the DesignFreo team to deliver a memorable, design-led experience that reflects the deep passion we hold for architecture and design in all its forms.
We’ve brought together all the Artedomus architectural surfaces and products that you can find at Reverie – your guide to Artedomus at Fremantle Design Week.
Featured Architectural Surfaces and Products
Perth has long been our home. It’s where Artedomus began, back in 1985, when our founding director, Angelo Schepis, set out to bring remarkable architectural surfaces to the Australian market. Some 40 years on our vision remains the same and while we have grown to a national scale, our presence in Perth, led by our Managing Director Phil Brenton, and WA State Manager Bec Cornale, is one of the most exciting parts of our business. Partnering with Fremantle Design Week has given us the opportunity to collaborate with some of Western Australia’s most talented creatives and explore new ways of showcasing our range of architectural surfaces and design-led products.
This year Artedomus returns to The Naval Store to take part in Reverie with Jessica Rayment of Jessica Alice Design. On paper, Reverie is a group exhibition, but in Jessica’s hands, as both an interior designer and editorial stylist, it becomes a world of her creative vision and making.
Jessica brings together a broad group of local designers, makers and artists to create an immersive environment composed of furniture, lighting, art and objects. Artedomus is especially excited to be part of this experience, contributing a selection of natural stones, Japanese tiles, New Volumes pieces in Italian Marrone terracotta, and Agape-designed bathware. “Perth is where Artedomus began, so there’s something fitting about taking part in this design week that means so much to this city,” says Thomas Coward, Creative Director at Artedomus. “Working with Jessica on Reverie meant thinking about materiality less as product and more as atmosphere – how a Marrone terracotta tone or a particular stone finish might sit inside someone else’s story.”
Jessica, in turn, is excited for what we can learn about WA design, through Reverie. “There is something very Western Australian about the way we respond to our landscape and materials,” says Jessica. “Reverie is a chance to bring some of that talent together and let the works speak to one another – not just for the public, but for other designers, architects and suppliers to show off what’s ‘just down the road’. It proves that Perth isn’t just producing beautiful work but has a genuine design culture here with its own point of view,” she says.
“Artedomus has such a strong understanding of materiality, and that gave us the freedom to think about their pieces as part of the wider story of Reverie rather than treating them as individual products,” she says.